The world's first wiki where authorship really matters (Nature Genetics, 2008). Due credit and reputation for authors. Imagine a global collaborative knowledge base for original thoughts. Search thousands of articles and collaborate with scientists around the globe.

wikigene or wiki gene protein drug chemical gene disease author authorship tracking collaborative publishing evolutionary knowledge reputation system wiki2.0 global collaboration genes proteins drugs chemicals diseases compound

Hoffmann, R. A wiki for the life sciences where authorship matters. Nature Genetics (2008)

[search][options]

Editor

Personal info

View

About

Terms

Javascript disabled

Please enable Javascript support in your browser to use this application.

Instructions on how to enable JavaScript on different browsers can be found here: http://www.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=23852.

[edit this page]

Klein, A.E.

Detection of mucin deposits on hydrogel contact lenses: evaluation of staining procedures and clinical significance.

Histochemical staining procedures, including the periodic acid-Schiff (PAS) reaction, Alcian blue stain, and the colloidal iron stain (MÃ¼ller's reagent), were investigated for their potential to identify mucin deposits on worn hydrogel contact lenses. The colloidal iron and Alcian blue stains gave positive results with worn lenses without apparent interference and indicated that the mucin deposits were principally complex carbohydrates with free acidic groups. On one heavily deposited lens, mucins were identified using the colloidal iron stain and were confirmed as a foundation layer under a proteinaceous layer on the anterior lens surface by treating the lens with a protease cleaning tablet and then repeating the staining procedure. The application of lens staining procedures to clinical diagnosis of mucin deficiency in the precorneal tear film is discussed.[1]

References

Detection of mucin deposits on hydrogel contact lenses: evaluation of staining procedures and clinical significance. Klein, A.E. Optometry and vision science : official publication of the American Academy of Optometry. (1989) [Pubmed]

Annotations and hyperlinks in this abstract are from individual authors of WikiGenes or automatically generated by the WikiGenes Data Mining Engine. The abstract is from MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.About WikiGenes Open Access Licence Privacy Policy Terms of Use apsburg